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April 12, 2015, 8:40 PM

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Scott Kupor / Andreessen Horowitz:
Activist investors' near-term obsession slowing M&A for tech incumbents and IPOs for startups  —  What's Holding Tech M&A Back?  —  Mergers and acquisitions activity around the world continues on a tear.  Last year alone saw $3.5 trillion of deal-making, just below the all-time high of 2007, Thomson Reuters data show.
More: Business InsiderTweets: @alex_bertha and @dmac1
TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat  —  Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat.  Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Twitter has been contacting celebrities who use Meerkat …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
First four Game of Thrones season 5 episodes leak online, apparently originating from review copies, surfacing on major torrent sites, in major blow to HBO  —  First Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leak Online  —  Starting a few hours ago several episodes of the new Game of Thrones season started to appear online.
Stack Overflow:
Stack Overflow user survey: 92% male, 41.8% self-taught, 54.5% use Javascript, 32.4% are full-stack web developers, 9.1% mobile developers  —  Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015  —  Every year we run a survey.  This year, more developers answered more questions than ever before.
Washington Post:
Inside the battle over crypto backdoors as the White House prepares report for President Obama  —  As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security  —  For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Word of mouth after a few months of general availability, not reviews based on early impressions, will decide the success of Apple Watch  —  An Apple Watch Meta-Review Reimagined  —  Product reviews of the Apple Watch launch are reaching new summits — and depths.
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Galaxy S6 review: spectacular camera, Exynos beats Snapdragon 810, but TouchWiz and Material Design do not mesh, S-Voice ruins always-on voice support  —  Samsung Galaxy S6 review: It's what's on the outside that counts  —  A great camera and premium materials offset the loss of power-user features.
Tweets: @steipete
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter cuts off firehose access for third-party data resellers DataSift and NTT Data as Twitter grows in-house big data business  —  Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business  —  In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas …
Nick Halstead / DataSift:
David Katzmaier / CNET:
Roku 3 (2015) review: remote with voice search makes it the best streaming box in its class  —  Roku 3 (2015) review: A fresh voice improves the best search in streaming  —  Competing against Apple, Amazon and Google isn't easy.  Just ask Microsoft, Barnes & Noble and Yahoo.
More: TechCrunch
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Mini-review of Hisense's $149 ARM Chromebook: well-made for price, but screen is mediocre, short battery life compared to Intel Chromebooks  —  Mini-review: Hisense's ARM Chromebook actually isn't awful for $149  —  The laptop doesn't cut corners that $199 Chromebooks aren't already cutting.
More: TechCrunch

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